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The fact-finding visit to South Africa focused on land restitution and reform, community participation, and the relationship between restitution and post-conflict reconciliation. Participants met with government officials, NGOs, and beneficiaries of the restitution process. Dispossession of black South Africans began in 1652 when the first European settlers arrived in the Cape Province of South Africa and continued until the 1990s. During the Apartheid era millions of black South Africans were forcibly removed from their homes and lands. Apartheid policies and laws left eighty percent of the population of the country with access to only thirteen percent of the land.

Below you will find relevant reports written by participants in the Comparative Study Visit to South Africa, as well as documents, presentation, and maps that were used in preparation for the visit, or provided to the participants by presenters and hosts while on the visit.